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  1. Re:Computer! on Researchers Devise AI System To Reduce Noise in Photos (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    AI adds information to the picture - any smart it might be, the noise is replaced from info based on tons of other photos. So the pic will look clean, but it's not real.

  2. Today, noise is less an issue in most situations on Researchers Devise AI System To Reduce Noise in Photos (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Nowadays a good pro-camera sensor shows almost no visible noise in rather dark conditions (using high ISO to keep taking photos under 20 ms). Not perfect yet, but ISO improved by a factor of 10 in 10 years. Negative had their time, and some important professional features did not evolve in pro digital camera thanks to pro-photographers unable to catch up with progress ; they'll keep talking about noise in 10 years when nobody cares anymore.

  3. Re:Visibility is always better than invisibility on With So Many Eyeballs, Is Open Source Security Better? (esecurityplanet.com) · · Score: 2

    most IT managers think open source software is less secure because people can see the code

    What? Are you implying that most IT managers are technically incompetent? If not, you should!

  4. Re:Really? Is this something new? on Is iOS 11.4 Draining Your iPhone's Battery? You're Not Alone (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Based on my own experience, iPhones are not born equal. Anyway I'd check the "background app refresh" settings and unset most of them...

  5. Re:Sample size of one on Is iOS 11.4 Draining Your iPhone's Battery? You're Not Alone (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Either this is a bunch of anti-Apple fanatics polluting forums on a regular basis, or Apple likes to remind everyone that new iPhones are coming very soon in an Apple store near you.

  6. Re:iOS 11.4 is draining my battery on Is iOS 11.4 Draining Your iPhone's Battery? You're Not Alone (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, these recurrent yearly issues occur a couple months before the new iPhones are released. Coincidence of course.

  7. Again, seriously? on Is iOS 11.4 Draining Your iPhone's Battery? You're Not Alone (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a minor fix 11.3 => 11.4, and yet that battery drain issue is back from the dead, again? Either Apple has some main dev team problem (which it has in a way), or maybe the new fw (os) install reset some settings, like "backup app refresh" set to true for some apps which would cause that issue.

  8. Re:Visibility is always better than invisibility on With So Many Eyeballs, Is Open Source Security Better? (esecurityplanet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I tend to agree. However, on the other hand, Open Source has "so many eyeballs" that most people trust it blindly, which can be dangerous.

  9. Re:Audacity on In World First, Danish Court Rules Stream-Ripping Site Illegal · · Score: 1

    If he knows how to use the ripping sites, audacity shouldn't be much more difficult

  10. Weird on In World First, Danish Court Rules Stream-Ripping Site Illegal · · Score: 1

    Is that a final decision, or an appeal is on the way? Also the "alliance" doesn't attack the source directly [ youtube ] but some indirect folks that just press the available oranges and give users some juice ... weird. Did that alliance assess how much good youtube does to them, by popularizing so many new songs (and remind people of older ones) that would otherwise remain in the dark forever?

  11. It seems the psychological effect of going outside to work, while it's still dark -- meaning before work -- has a more negative impact than going back home in the evening -- it's dark but it's *after* work...

  12. Re:Where in the Internet Bible does it say ... on AT&T Wants To Overhaul HBO, Says It Isn't Profitable Enough (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There is more to life.

    You know you could keep the TV on, cut the sound, while you go outside for some outdoor activities. That will make HBO happy.

  13. What about Android?

  14. I thought for a second that Kubrick was back from the dead, maybe helped by Jon Snow's Melissandre

  15. Thus on Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Spiders invented electric vehicles before humans.

  16. *(true also in the south hemisphere, of course...)

  17. Re:DST on EU Polls The Public About Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (europa.eu) · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is no rational reason why we have to fool around with our clocks twice a year.

    No rational reason? Mid-northern latitudes (~40-50 degrees) have about 16 hours sunlight in summer, and only 8 in winter. In summer, 1 hour is added to the clock, so that the sunrise is not at 5am (6 instead), and people benefit from late sunlight since this is a holiday season. In winter with no hour added sunrises happens at an earlier time, otherwise people would go to work in total darkness.

  18. Sony infrastructure?

  19. lesson - the US government has to follow it's laws

    Something is missing from your tale: "but nobody in the US government cares, because it's not their money, and they won't be fired anyway".

  20. No cause of death was announced on Steve Ditko, Co-Creator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, Dies at Age 90 (ew.com) · · Score: 2

    Spider-Man didn’t kill Steve, he just failed to save his life. His neck snapped when SM tried to catch him, but he’d have died when he hit the ground if he hadn’t tried. Which means that the Osborn was still the one responsible for his death.





















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  21. Re:A few more bits... on Scientists Break Quantum Entanglement Record At 18 Qubits (zmescience.com) · · Score: 1

    With the scaling of around 1Qbit/year since 2001 (when they factored 15 on a 7 Qbit machine), my guess would be that it will take a few centuries to get there.

    Likely to become a non-linear progress, though.

  22. A few more bits... on Scientists Break Quantum Entanglement Record At 18 Qubits (zmescience.com) · · Score: 1

    and encrypted data will have a hard time...

  23. Re:Redefining 'plethora' on Apple's New iPhones Will Come In a Plethora of New Colors, Says Report (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    And all of unicode:

  24. Re:time for him to pick another country on Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited To US On Copyright Charges, New Zealand Court Rules (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    time for him

    Time expired. He had to move earlier.

  25. No. International arrest warrant -> NZ obeys international rules.